Microbe
['maɪkrəʊb] or ['maɪkrob]
Definition
(noun.) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Microbion
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Definition
n. a microscopic organism esp. a bacterium found wherever organic matter is in process of decomposition.—adjs. Micrō′bial Micrō′bian Micrō′bic.—n. Microbiol′ogy the science of micro-organisms.
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Examples
- Such a culture so multiplies the same microbe, to the exclusion of others, as to permit it to be easily identified and studied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Material infected with the microbe is then placed in the test-tube by a sterilized platinum wire and the tube closed by raw cotton. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Sédillot (the originator of the term microbe), at the head of an ambulance corps in Alsace, was a pioneer in the rapid transport of wounded from the fiel d of battle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Carbolic acid, the bichloride of mercury, and formalin are the most efficient weapons against the dreaded microbe. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In a little while the microbes begin to develop and increase, forming colonies, in which they swarm by the million, and present the clotted appearance seen in Fig. 178. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Koch, whose success in detecting the microbes which cause consumption and cholera has made him famous the world over. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pasteur thought that in places where sheep dead of anthrax had been buried, the microbes were brought to t he surface in the castings of earthworms. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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